IMPORTANT EDIT: THIS IS AN OLD CHALLENGE.
Please enjoy reading through this thread as an archive, but it is closed to new posts. You can still download the old models and also post your entry in order to ask for feedback here

The challenge here is to render this scene in a Film Noir style, making it look like a frame from a film shot around the 1940s or 1950s.

Most Film Noir is black and white, although this is not mandatory. Film Noir is not just about rendering stylish, dark images, but also making images that are evocative of dark moods and dark events.

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This challenge is completed, but you can still download this scene files and try lighting it yourself:

Giorgio Luciano (jojo1975) has volunteered to make a 3D Studio Max version. We need vokunteers to make versions Softimage XSI, Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Blender, any other programs that are popular. Just PM me if you can do this, and I'll host the version you make.

Even if a program can import some of the file formats that are already available for download, often a native-format version helps draw-in more participants who have that brand of software, and that provides a chance to organize or group the objects better than the way they are imported.

Originally Posted by jeremybirn:A note about file formats: We need more file formats supported.

Giorgio Luciano (jojo1975) has volunteered to make a 3D Studio Max version. We need vokunteers to make versions Softimage XSI, Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Blender, any other programs that are popular. Just PM me if you can do this, and I'll host the version you make.

Even if a program can import some of the file formats that are already available for download, often a native-format version helps draw-in more participants who have that brand of software, and that provides a chance to organize or group the objects better than the way they are imported.

I like this challange because you don't have to worry too much about textures. I usually end up loosing interest half way through a challange due to texture work. This one was quick enough to keep me interested. Did a lot of post work though.

Hey Jeremy, I attended your 3d masters lighting class at the ADAPT conference of 2006, (which was both helpful and inspiring). I feel ready to take on your lighting challenges, count me in for this one.

A lot of it is black and white, a lot of it is dark and shadowy, but the "darkness" (noir means darkness) is also thematic. Film Noir are movies about crime and murder and betrayal. Often in a Film Noir you don't know who the good guys are, you don't know who to trust, there's lots of reversals of fortune and plot twists, and even the "hero" is usually morally weak or not purely good.

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